Predicting which videos will go viral on the Web is not easy to do, but a Houston-based startup thinks it knows the secret. PopScreen tries to surface online videos that could become big hits. Robin Wauters at TechCrunch has details: The company is today launching what they dub a ‘video prediction engine’, which they claim […]
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Twitter’s just a few years old, but there’s already a rich tradition of parody accounts that masquerade as real people or characters. From @FakeAPStylebook to @Mosspuppet [NSFW] to @FakeSarahPalin [NSFW] to Mad Men’s @BettyDraper to @DrunkHulk, faux Twitter feeds can be more fun than the real thing. And that’s definitely the case with @CorpzFlowrLois, […]
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By Purva Patel Houston native turned San Francisco resident Matt Mullenweg is often touted as a local success story by the city’s Web-technology enthusiasts. The 26-year old dropped out of the University of Houston in 2004 to work for CNET Networks. He eventually left that to found popular blogging service WordPress, which hosts millions of […]
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Starting Wednesday, T-Mobile’s 3G wireless data service will go into overdrive, as Houston is one of several markets where a faster network will be switched on. T-Mobile will light up a new feature called HSPA+, which translates into zippier data connections for most smartphone users, and even faster speeds coming to future phones. It’s the […]
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Houston’s web tech community is cheering the acquisition of one of its own: NutshellMail. Constant Contact, a Massachusetts-based e-mail marketing company, bought NutshellMail, a site founded in Houston that lets users consolidate e-mail and online social networks. The Web-based company moved to Palo Alto last year, lured away by a small investment from the fbFund […]
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How much TV do you watch? A few hours a week? A few a night? Do you squirrel away programs on your Digital Video Recorder’s hard drive, just to have something to watch in case the 200 channels to which you subscribe are indeed a vast wasteland? Then I’ve got the DVR for you. Or […]
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Sunday, the Chronicle had a story about local tech enthusiast Marc Nathan’s efforts to create a seed accelerator in Houston similar to Capital Factory in Austin. Today, he launched a name and preliminary site for the new program: Startopoly. On his Facebook page, Nathan notes: I simply wanted to create an environment were seed and […]
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Saturday, we had a story about Houston companies trying to get attention at SXSW. It included Werkadoo, a job matching site; Favitt, a dressed up search engine; Natuba, a photo sharing site; and Recycle Match, which helps companies find buyers for their manufacturing waste. The Planet, Houston’s largest web hosting company, hosted a party with […]
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Today’s story on startups vying for attention at South By Southwest Interactive mentions a new Houston company, Favitt. Favitt, which lets users create a customized aggregated search page, launched a beta version of its site this week in time for SXSW. A search for the "Houston Chronicle" pulled up Google results in the center along […]
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My colleague Dwight Silverman noted earlier today that the new online ventureWeSLGT.com is up, though all the features aren’t there yet. In the meantime, we can tell you what the site–or what its founder J.R. Cohen envisions becoming a movement–is all about. When Cohen worked as general manager of Coffee Groundz, he would often tweet […]
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